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To: Golden Eagle
They're obviously offering a subscription to make money on pirated software. Your claim was they weren't, at all.

Really? Where did I say that? In fact, what I said is that TERRORISTS are not making money from these programs, which was YOUR claim. Also, after visiting the KaZaa website, I found no place to actually subscribe to an upgraded membership. Perhaps you are talking about scam websites, but I highly doubt those make any money (provide evidence otherwise, please, otherwise I'll assume they make about as much money as the Nigerian e-mail scams, which is to say not too much), and this legislation really has nothing to do with it, nor is there anything the US can really do about internationally based servers.

The repositories are all over the globe. Money is siphoned from the pirates to fund whatever other illegitimate activities they are involved in.

Evidence, please.

What I'm trying to tell you is that there's far more money to be made off of other illegal activities, like drugs, than there is off of P2P. You should be in the Drug War threads trying to convince everyone to legalize marijuana so that we can grow our own instead of funding terrorist activities.
270 posted on 04/26/2006 6:12:20 PM PDT by Quick1 (There is no Theory of Evolution. Just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows to live.)
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To: Quick1
I never said Kazaa was terrorist, I claimed sites that sell rights to pirated software like Kazaa earn income, which you tried to deny. Other sites like that exist and may and probably do fund terrorism and other illicit activities, that's what the congressional reports say.

You can rail against Congress some more if you want, and they do make many major mistakes, but enforcing US Copyright law at a time the US is under seige by international media pirates and open source cybercommunists is something I strongly support. And I don't see any reason why I shouldn't.
271 posted on 04/26/2006 6:27:48 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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